Do you have Tablespace directories with a softlink to the data directory ? Thanks VB
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Samba <saas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have taken a base backup of my master server using pg_basebackup command > as below: > pg_basebackup -D /tmp/PostgresBackup/ -Ft -Z 9 -l masterbackup -h > localhost -U replication -w > > The above created 4 tar files, namely: 16394.tar.gz 16395.tar.gz > 16396.tar.gz base.tar.gz > > I do know that my database contains 3 table spaces in addition to > pg_default and pg_global ( I guess, that is why it created those three > numbered tar.gz files, plus one base.tar.gz file ) and my master and > standby servers are identical by all means. > > Now, I'm not sure how can I restore these files on the standby server. I > could restore the base.tar.gz into the data directory on standby and the > streaming replication has started working properly. But I'm not sure what > to do with these additional numbered gz files which contains the same data > that is already contained in the base.tar.gz file. > > Can some one explain me what to do with these files? The documentation for > pg_basebackup does not mention this information, it just says that a > different variant of the command will fail if there are multiple table > spaces. > > Another related query is if we can specify the name of the backup file > instead of leaving it to be base.tar.gz file. > > Thanks and Regards, > Samba > > > > >
